Example sentences of "see they [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 2 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 3 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 4 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 5 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 6 | I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye . |
| 7 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 8 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 9 | They 're advertising , we 'll see them in the Yellow Pages . |
| 10 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 11 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 12 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 13 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 14 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 15 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 16 | you never see them across the other side |